From: zeb haradon (zebharadon@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 19:22:44 MDT
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>Question: if all the ice on earth melted, how much would the seas rise?
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Pour some water into a glass. Put some ice cubes into the glass. The ice
cubes will be mostly submerged, but will stick out a little bit. Now fill
the cup all the way up, so that it is up to the brim with water, and the
tops of the ice cubes are sticking up over the brim. Now wait for the ice to
melt. As the ice melts, how much water flows over the brim?
This should give you your answer as far as the Arctic goes, since the ice is
floating on the water.
I'm not sure about the Antarctic.
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